Improvement in neck-yokes



S. P. CAMPBELL Neck Yoke.

No. 411,60L Patented Feb. 16, 1864.

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FETERi FHOTO-LITHOGRAPHEF, WASfilNGTONv D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STILLMAN P. CAMPBELL, OF ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA.

IMPROVEMENT IN NECK-YOKES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4|,69l, dated February 16, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STILLMAN P. CAMP- BELL, of Rochester, in the county of Olmstead and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and Improved Neck-Yoke; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and op eration of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification in which Figure l is a perspective view of the neckyoke in position ready for use. Fig. 2 is an end View of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view of the same when in position ready to be uncoupled.

My invention consists in providing the ordinary neck-yoke with an improved coupling, so that it may be much more readily attached and detached to and from the breaststraps than it canjbe by the methods commonly used.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A is the yoke; B, the ring through which the wagon-tongue passes. O and O are'the metallic ferrules upon the ends of the yoke, having the projections cc upon their under sides. D is the coupling, permanently attached to the breast-straps E. F is the martingalestrap, also attached to the coupling D.'

The yoke A is constructed in the ordinary manner. The coupling D is a metallic ring bent into a pyriform figure, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Near the upper end of the coupling D, and on the inner edge, is the plate (1, through which the breast-strap rings are inserted.

The martingale-strap F is attached by means of the ring 6 inserted through a hole in the inner side of D below the plate d.

The operation of my invention is as follows:

The breast-straps E, being properly and permanently attached to the coupling D, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and the martingale-strap being also attached in the same manner, the whole is ready for use. In order to attach the neck-yoke to the breast-straps E it is turned so as to bring it in the position in relation to the coupling D shown in Fig. 3. The projection 0 will then pass through the elongated portion of D, and the coupling may he slipped to its place, as shown in Fig. 1. The yoke returns to its proper position, in which it is kept by the weight of the tongue in the ring B, and the breaststraps cannot be detached from the yoke 'while it remains in this position. WVhen it is desired to detach the horses, the yokeis removed and brought into the position shown in Fig. 3, when the coupling D may be slipped off without difficulty.

The advantages of my improvement and arrangement are the ease and facility with which the yoke may be attached and removed, the increased steadiness of the tongue, and comfort of the horses, as there can be no slipping on the breast-straps and bruising of the horses shoulders, and the increased durability of said straps in consequence of the absence of all friction through the rings.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

1. The ferrule 0 provided with the projections 0 c, in combination with a ring, D, provided with a cross-plate and breast-strap rings, as at d, substantially as described.

2. The martingale-ring e, in combination with the ring D and ferrule O, substantially as described.

S. P. CAMPBELL.

In presence of- THOMAS SORIVENER, J r., R. D. 0. SMITH. 

